The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1887-01-19
THOUGHT OF THE HOUR.

RESOLVE on certain fixed moral beliefs,
adopt the ten commandments from God as
absolutely and unchaDgeably true and the
only truth for conduct.-Rev. Emory I.
Haynes.
IT has long been evident that whatever
lines in former years distinguished Univers-
alists and Unitarians from each other have
been steadily and yet fast and surely fading
out.-The Waterman.
MAKE iull surrender of your life to God,
and do not hesitate because OF any intel
lectual difficulty concerning points of doc
riDe. 1t is not a question of doctrine, bat
of life.-Rev. R. R. Meredith.
WHILE it is unquestionably true that med
ical men are ordinarily too neglectful of their
political duties, it seems to us that when
they do take action, they should base it on
broader grounds than class piQue.-New
York Medical Journal.
We will always have more or less of the
mushy and cayenne pepper fiction, because
it has its constituency, but it will never;again
dominate the great middle class of readers as
1t did many years ago. The taste for the
good, if only slightly cultivated, destroys
that for the bad, and the tendency of the
literary instinct when once aroused is steadily
upward.-Omaha Republican.
In regard to the chewing-gum, we do not
feel so sure. Besides being practice which
is from an aesthetic point of view not to be
encouraged it is very doubtful whether, I'M
der the most favorable circumstances, it is
really benefit to Digestion and, until there
is some guaranty as to the composition of
what is called chewing-gum, we should hest
tate before recommending it.-Science.
IT is not mere breath, but moral life, that
isSacred. We should be more than sorry to
say anything loose or dangerous upon a ques-
ton of ethics; but we can not help thinking
that in the interest of suffering humanity it
is time to examine the grounds for the be-
lief that when all hope of recovery is gone
morality or religion commands Us to protract
to the utmost the pains of death.-Toronto
Week.
THE Andoyer professors admit that the
creed, as originally laid down, gave no sane
ton to the doctrines they teach and the
teaching OF which has brought this accuse
ton of heresy upon them. They admit that
the trainers of the creed did not contemp plate
the possibility of any salvation after death,
and that, if the creed as laid down by them
is in truth the final thought of men in theol-
ogy, there is no more to be said.-Cleveland
Plain Dealer.
WITHkll her liberal1ty and treless energy,
Mrs. Thurber seems destined TO see her eff
forts for the establishment of national opera
amount to nothing. Certainly, the public
spirit which she has shown in this work de-
mauds better return, and had she placed
the enterprise in the hands of more compe.
tent managers she would have succeeded in
ner ambition. The only thing from which
American opera is suffering is too much
Thomas.-New York Graphic.
HOMER speaks OF winged words"-eDed
ptroentd-which fly from mouth to mouth,
as the gossip, and De Quincy considers that
it would be better il nine of every ten of them
had their pinions clipped. Just as patient,
unresting labor acquires the gold and silver
in commerce, so the same effort in like de-
gree is necessary to heap up store of these
measures of language. But while the one
wealth is sure to fade away and "leave not q
wreck behind" the other is richness imper-
isbable for all time. and perhaps for eternity.
&C. M. Harger in The Current
CHILDREN should be taught at an early
period of life to avoid the use of condiments.
Their food should be plentiful but simple.
Many mother will give her very young
children rich food-pastry, cake, and sauces,
and condiments of the most indigestible OF
fiery kind-and tell you her children are
healthy, and nothing hurts them. Perhaps
the injury is not apparent at first but it will
not be long before headaches indigestion OF
the most serious character, dyspepsia, fixed
| for life, uisproves the truth of her opinions
| Halls Journal of Health.
IN these times there Is great deal of out
| cry against anything like serious and habit
ual introspectlon. Not only is the fear ex
| pressed that self-examination will make one
morbid, but it is taken as an evidence thai
one is already morbid if he confesses, or in
any way shows, much anxiety about his
own spiritual state. One is looked upon a,
a little "of7' who isn't dead sure that he il
| Gods child, and who wants to be certain
that he is doing the best he can 10 train hi
own soul into harmony with God, and int
fitness for the enjoyment of future blessed
ness.-Adyance.